There are no "constitutional rights."
That is a term of propaganda.
The term "democracy," as the misanthropes engaging in mass ritual human sacrifice, are bandying about as a formal justification for ritualized mass human sacrifice (and "for-profit" commercial enterprise, as a by-product), is also a term of propaganda.
The terms "republic," and "republican form of government," are seldom, if ever, heard to emanate from the members of the soviet that has usurped the legislative Powers, the czars that now occupy the agency of executive Power, and the Inquisitors (cassocked in the vestment of parochial clergy, no less) who rule in place of judicial Power.
It is put forth that not only are we a democracy, but that we are the institutors and defenders of global democracy.
The effect of the propagandist employment of the term "democracy" is to color the concept and institution of republican forms of government.
Thus when one thinks "republican forms of government" (if one is still able to definitively and comprehensively do so), the term democracy attaches in representation of the former.
In reality, we are a bit beyond
democracy, and are subject to that which inevitably results as a consequence of
democracy .
"Ninth grade civics class" (in fact, there is no longer "ninth grade civics class," and there has not been for some time; there is, instead, "social studies") in a government controlled public school is also an exercise in national socialist propaganda ("social studies"), and compelled daily incarceration (from the fifth or sixth year of life through at least the fifteenth or sixteenth) in government "attendance centers" (an explicit statutory term for "public school"), for the purpose of behavior modification, (the "professional" term for "education"), is communist.
By statute, the only term of employment for a government school teacher is "taking attendance," as this is how "state," "federal," and "municipal," funding for their salaries, ("and for other purposes") is apportioned.
It would be unnecessary to apply the terms "format and makeup" to the term "republican" if indeed the Republic was functioning as such.
It is not.
There is no Constitutional apportionment of popular representation, and Senators have been substituted with un-apportioned popularly elected representatives.
There is no Constitutionally elected Vice President, and thus no checks and balances on the President.
Arguably, the executive Power is popularly determined (and/or popularly perceived to be so, again via propaganda), in contradiction to the republican form of government indicated by the authors of the document ordaining and establishing the constitution thereof.
The Supreme Law of the Land has been short circuited by a vulgar form of judicial legislation decreed by members of a private monopolistic professional guild.
The intent of "...this Constitution for the United States of America," was not to institute republican form of government, as that had already been accomplished, but was, in large part, intended as a remedial commercial agreement, contract, and perfection of Union, amongst the members of a confederation of independent nation-states.
One of the cornerstones of the commercial agreement justified
here, by its author (with commentary), has been replaced by its opposite.
I await the apologistic propaganda, condescending personal ridicule, and sarcasm.